Godolphin wrote to Thomas Cromwell sending him a present of Cornish tin which could be made into pewter vessels.
He offered to send Cornish wrestlers to accompany Henry VIII if the king visited Calais.
He sent two wrestlers to Cromwell whose command of the English language was not good, presumably they were Cornish speakers.
[2] He seems to have been confused with his eldest son, also Sir William (1515–1570), not least in Burke's Extinct Peerage which conflates the two, so that is not clear which offices were held by the elder and which by the younger.
Sir William lived to an advanced age, dying at around the same time as his son, which may have been the original cause of the confusion.